UCSF team wants 1 million people for heart study

That phone you’re holding is becoming a new tool for medical research.

A major heart project from UCSF — called the Health eHeart study — will have participants use mobile technology to gather pulse and blood pressure readings, as well as information about exercise and diet in real time. All that data will then be sent to the researchers, who hope to enroll 1 million people in the project. The goal is to better understand how heart disease develops and progresses.

The team says it is the largest heart disease study to date. The researchers are looking for participants healthy and sick, young and old. The initial funding for the project, which launched last week, came from the San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Foundation.

To find out more about the project, and to learn how you can enroll, head here.